Key West High School - Conch Yearbook (Key West, FL)

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Jeanne Weatherford tries hard to balance her bookkeeping accounts in Miss Wirmusky's class. It's really a job! You can see pencils fly over shorthand pads in Miss Wirmusky's class second period. 7 xv. I vc. 1, - , --.1 1 -.a iiri F . ....-. lit. Commercial The commercial department is housed in the first three rooms in the building of the new high school, quarters adequately equipped for business students. Bookkeeping and short- hand students meet in the first of these. Book- keeping students become acquainted with all common business forms and learn the use of all standard record books. Bookkeeping for a sole proprietorship and for a partnership is studied in detail and corporation records are introduced. Students in Gregg shorthand take between TOO and T20 words per minute at the completion of their second year and have had practice in the transcription of their notes. The office machines room has such up-to- date equipment as completely automatic Friden calculators, 10-key adders, dictaphones, comptometers, electric typewriters, duplica- tion machines, a bookkeeping machine, and other miscellaneous equipment. In this class, office etiquette is taught during the first six weeks. Then, students are rotated from one machine to another. In a well-lighted room with twenty-five new typewriters out of forty, students learn to type between fifty and eighty words per minute. Business mathematics and business English are shared with other departments ofthe school. Two highly competitive awards, a type- writer and a medal, are given at the end of the year to faculty-selected outstanding stu- dents. l sure wish l had these machines for bookkeeping class. -'E

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, , ff psf, me M Mr. Hawxhurst gives pictorial instruction to Hollie Moore and Gail Enslow. in decorative Classes in the art department this year first worked metal work, moved to leather articles, and then took up woodwork. A short unit in water color was also introduced. In conjunction with the manual arts department and under the direc- tion of the dramatic classes, scenery was designed and made for the senior, junior, and sophomore plays. Classes met in the crafts shop, which possesses varied facilities. Woodworking equipment includes a bandsaw, a scroll saw, a sander, lathe, circular saw, a large drillpress, a grinder and buffer, and leather work tools. A hand printing press was invaluable in producing quan- tities of attractive signs and posters. An exchange of equipment and students between the art and manual arts departments made for smooth operation of both. Art is an elective subject which is open to all students. It may be taken four years and is chosen mostly by general course students. Please reserve your Annual, pleads Lee Castro. Q 'Q Wayne Hawxhurst Arts and Crafts Arts and Craft Donna Hedge shows Harry Bethel, Nick Vonya, Reinaldo de Lapaz, skills. and Idilio Salinero that even girls can perform such ,,,,..-4159 -1' ,-z,4.lM-'Wa': 3 K iei' Anyone for leather carving? lt looks easy in this picture. ! 2 .. .tv ,134 fr. qrf 'g..., ' W Z7 X X L.

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if X.! K Nellie G. Panfaleo Helen T. Wirmusky Frances C. Sands Shorthand I, Typing I, Shorthand Il, Business Typing II Office Machines English, Bookkeeping 22:22 :III-W illlill , 4 You guessed it. These are busy commercial teachers. -- .. 245 X 72 Our wr- ,f Clack, Clackf' go the typewriters as the girls in Typing ll try for perfect papers. Watch your figures, Kay. You certainly don't want the wrong bill figures, says Mrs. Pantaleo. to send someone K 5355'-